[Bridge] promiscuous mode necessary for supporting KVM?

2011-03-28 Thread Scott Koranda
My platform is Debian Squeeze amd64: $ /etc/network# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l $ /etc/network# uname -r 2.6.32-5-amd64 I followed what I believe to be the canonical instructions for deploying KVM to support virtual machines on this host. My specific need is for the virtual

Re: [Bridge] promiscuous mode necessary for supporting KVM?

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:29:25 -0500 Scott Koranda skora...@gmail.com wrote: My platform is Debian Squeeze amd64: $ /etc/network# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l $ /etc/network# uname -r 2.6.32-5-amd64 I followed what I believe to be the canonical instructions for deploying

[Bridge] 802.1q broken when used with bridging in 2.6.38

2011-03-28 Thread Igor Serebryany
it appears that 802.1q tagging is broken in 2.6.38 when combined with bridging. here is how to reproduce the problem: i set up an interface for the machine running 2.6.38 on my cisco router, and assign a subnet to that interface. i am using ping from the router to do the testing. i am

Re: [Bridge] promiscuous mode necessary for supporting KVM?

2011-03-28 Thread Scott Koranda
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:29:25 -0500 Scott Koranda skora...@gmail.com wrote: My platform is Debian Squeeze amd64: $ /etc/network# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l $ /etc/network# uname -r 2.6.32-5-amd64 I followed what I believe to be the canonical instructions for

[Bridge] [ANNOUNCE] bridge-utils 1.5

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
The Bridge Utilities haven't been re-released in a very long time. The only new feature is the introduction of hairpin mode. Note: this is probably the last release of these utilities because I am actively working on intergrating bridge utility into iproute2 using netlink. Package download: